Blogs

6 reasons to stop funding a project

When considering a request for additional funding there are three types of funds: sunk funds, the ‘money at risk’ (to be spent in the next phase) and the remaining projected cost of the project. But when should you stop funding altogether?

Questions from a project manager

Why would facilitative project managers be interested in the difficult art of questioning? David Jago says the quality of your questions is so important.

“After all: garbage in, garbage out. An oldie but a goodie. If you start with crap data, it can only go downhill from there.”

Project management at the crossroads

One of the problems facing project management today is how do we know that someone with the role title ‘project manager’ can really manage a project?

The truth about project benefits

The project should always be focused on benefits from the business case onwards, not as an afterthought, argues Jed Simms, so why do we still pour our energy into managing cost when we should also manage value?

Portrait of a career project manager

A significant number of project managers now have some sort of accreditation in the discipline and expect those coming in to complete tertiary study. Is this the end of the ‘accidental’ project manager?

Project management at speed

Michelle LaBrosse on the difference between doing projects on autopilot and achieving project flow:

“It is imperative to remain in the driver’s seat to ensure that we constantly remove road blocks that make our project teams falter and pause.”

For project management and beyond

International Women’s Day reminds us that women hold up half the sky–and that the girls of the future may just need to wear spacesuits on their stratospheric rise.

Don’t wait to embed change

There’s a fatal flaw in most project management methodologies: change management activities happen way too late to be effective, writes Catherine Smithson.

“Engagement is needed right from the start of the change, to ensure change is driven by executives and managers.”

Can we automate project governance?

Is it really possible to automate governance when implementing a project planning matrix system? Martin Vaughan discusses workflow versus high level decision-making.

“The business needs to make a decision as to the relative priority of the initiative, assuming it goes ahead. Priorities will always inspire debate and discussion.”